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Dialectics in socio‐scientific inquiry: Islam contra Occident

Masudul Alam Choudhury (Department of Economics and Finance, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN: 0144-333X

Article publication date: 4 September 2009

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study dialectical methodology as a scientific reasoning process in Islam comparatively with mainstream philosophy of science.

Design/methodology/approach

Comparative discursive method of inquiry using the language of philosophy of science and abstract mathematization (limited use).

Findings

This is a theoretical paper of an intellectual category, which presents the arguments within the framework of the principle of universal and pervasive complementarities as the evidential sign of the epistemology of unity of knowledge studied through functional ontological logical formalism.

Research limitations/implications

The theoretical nature of an argumentative paper is at best a foundation one rather than an empirical one.

Practical implications

An example of the Islamic dialectical methodology of unity of knowledge is applied to socioeconomic development in Islamic perspective.

Originality/value

There is believed to be no other paper on Islam and its dialectical methodology in scientific reasoning compared to the theory of dialectics in mainstream philosophy of science in the contemporary literature.

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Citation

Alam Choudhury, M. (2009), "Dialectics in socio‐scientific inquiry: Islam contra Occident", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 29 No. 9/10, pp. 498-511. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330910986289

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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